Top 100 Screen Quotes
#1. They almost looked like one of those old computers he'd heard about with a glassy screen called a monitor.
James Dashner
#2. All the criminals do their work on the screen, which people can see. Politicians work behind the screen, which the public can't see.1 - Gang leader Chotta Shakeel, in Suketu Mehta, Maximum City
Dinesh D'Souza
#3. What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.
Tom Hanks
#4. The experienced writer says to the anguished novice: 'Just do it; get something, anything, on to the screen or page, just establish a flow of words, and criticise them later.' You give this advice but can't always take it.
Hilary Mantel
#5. Any problem you recognize represents but a tiny blip on the radar screen of your well-being. Even while you are experiencing a difficulty, homeostasis is working on your behalf to return you to perfect balance. Your role is simply to relax and allow nature to take its healing course.
Alan Cohen
#6. And then a new screen, one I had never seen before, never even heard of popped up. It gave me a choice. I could become the new Lord of Darkness myself, or I could take a gamble and be reincarnated. I chose wisely.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#7. I truly value the cinema experience, the tribal gathering in the dark to watch something larger than life. I like to sit in the first row with no heads in front of mine, and become one with the screen. I always stay for the complete credits so I can linger in the film's story just a little longer.
Pamela Yates
#8. My photographs are not really about photography. They are about editing. I use photography but they are all taken from the TV screen. Anybody can do that, but it's the order I put the pictures in to try to create a new kind of movie, something that you can put on your wall.
John Waters
#9. I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years.
Persis Khambatta
#10. I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.
Gabriel Macht
#11. I'm pretty much fully digital. I've basically spent a few painstaking days putting sounds into my laptop, just banking them, because I love playing, and I love visually seeing it on my screen and being able to change the sounds more, with different plug-ins. I've created my own synth sounds.
Dev Hynes
#12. Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.
Douglas Adams
#13. I think audiences like to see their favorite actor handle himself physically on screen, however he does it. He can wrestle, or box, or he can know karate.
Thomas Ian Griffith
#14. What's society going to be like when the kids today are phenomenally good at text messaging and spend a huge amount of on-screen time, but have never gone bowling together?
Clifford Stoll
#15. The concept of privacy is a sort of screen to hide the fact that almost none is possible in a social universe.
Janet Malcolm
#16. I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million.
Emile Hirsch
#17. I don't get writer's block because I don't believe in it. I believe you sit in front of the computer and force your fingers to get something on the screen.
Janet Evanovich
#18. I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.
Gary Sinise
#19. The fundamentals of the game are the same wherever you go: pass, dribble, shoot, defend, rebound, screen, play hard and together
Terry Stotts
#20. We don't look at each other [in the car], but instead do so only when we want to. We're allowed to look around without appearing rude. We have a big screen in front of us and side views. Silence doesn't seem heavy or difficult.
Abbas Kiarostami
#21. You talk about Steve Jobs when he came out with the iPhone, and everyone thought it was amazing: you touch it and move the screen.
Dana Brunetti
#22. Hey, uh, you know. Um. If you're alive, uh, call me." I looked at the screen and said, "It's Jane." I closed the phone, thinking, Lame. I am so lame.
Faith Hunter
#23. Part of being famous is offering up this blank screen upon which people can project everything, and it's a sacred act, putting yourself out there, in a way that lots of celebrities aren't steeled for; they're not prepared for the degree to which people define them.
Alanis Morissette
#24. My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.
Richard Wilson
#25. I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.
Ann Macbeth
#26. Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me.
Craig McCracken
#27. Let's just say there's only so much of life that can be taught by pushing a bunch of buttons and looking at a screen.
Katie Kacvinsky
#28. TV depends very much on the pictures that you see on your television, and all the other things that come up on the screen, whether it be GFX, the studio or the pictures of the game.
Jill Douglas
#29. I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.
Tatiana Maslany
#30. It's 7:42 on a Tuesday when the phone rings. I only notice the time because I'm watching Wheel of Fortune, which is so boring that I think I might be better entertained if I turned off the TV and stared at the blank screen.
Alyssa B. Sheinmel
#31. Progressive disclosure defers advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone.
Jakob Nielsen
#32. When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
Gail Collins
#33. It's funny that you can murder someone horribly and graphically and disturbingly in a horror film, and it's not an NC-17, but if you put a naked man on screen, everyone freaks out.
Carey Mulligan
#34. I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.
Billy Crudup
#35. These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad.
John Lydon
#36. So if she was still alive after everything, what was she living for? To be terrified of life outside her front door? To hide behind a computer screen and miss out on the best gifts she'd been given?
Lenora Worth
#37. We can only interpret the behavior of others through the screen we create.
David Mamet
#38. Hey...kid," he (Adam) said, "can...I...come....in?"
You never had to ask before," she (Phoebe) sad, holding the screen open for him.
-Kiss of Life page 257
We need...to be...invited," he said.
Dan Waters
#39. On the morning of September 11th, I was literally about 18 blocks from the World Trade Center. I witnessed in person what a lot of people witnessed in person, but what the world really saw on the television screen, I saw it with my own eyes that morning.
Steve Tisch
#40. You have a face that suits a woman
For her soul's screen
The sort of beauty that's called human
In hell, Faustine.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#41. Other signs of the apocalypse proliferate. After a pop-up ad appears on her screen, Vivian announces that she plans to sign up for Netflix. She buys a digital camera on Amazon with one click. She asks Molly if she's ever seen the sneezing baby panda video on YouTube. She even joins Facebook.
Christina Baker Kline
#42. One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.
Roger Ebert
#44. Any time I'm on-screen it is realistic because I don't pull my punches or anything like that.
Dwayne Johnson
#45. screen that was longing to give me a lightning-bolt-thunder-roll odin-bloody headache
Robin McKinley
#46. And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet.
John Sayles
#47. You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.
Danai Gurira
#48. You can't stop people watching on mobiles, but I hope the old fashioned idea of sitting in a dark room with a big screen with a group of strangers lives on forever.
Asif Kapadia
#49. Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script.
Robert Wise
#50. We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.
Steve Jobs
#51. A text pops up on the screen. It's from Luis. I can't help but grin when I read his perfectly thought-out message.
Luis: Hey
Simone Elkeles
#52. I actually enjoy working with green screen, because I can imagine all that stuff happening, and I really cut my teeth on a movie I made called "Adaptation" where I had to imagine four-page dialogue scenes with my twin brother, who was nothing more than a tennis ball and a gas stand.
Nicolas Cage
#53. There is a difference between movie actors and TV acting, especially with movie stars, which is they know their face is 20 feet high on the screen. They know they don't have to do much.
Noah Hawley
#54. Among more recent innovators was the Russian-born Vladimir Nabokov, whose novel Bend Sinister is trophied with delightful oddities like kwazinka ('a slit between the folding parts of a screen') and shchekotiki (which is 'half-tingle, half-tickle').6
Henry Hitchings
#55. I hide myself behind, a cloud of smoke; the smoke screen varies, dependent on the variable. The variable consists of: stress, anguish, boredom, madness, anger, depression, apathy, negativity, sex, violence & a little chunk of chaos.
Emily H. Sturgill
#56. When people bitch about the death of the vinyl LP as a medium (and lord knows they bitch) what they're mostly lamenting is the death of this kind of listening. Music as a concerted sonic experience, rather than the backing track to a flashing screen. What
Steve Almond
#57. I am not one of those people who string their exes along. Instead, I run and hide: under the covers, behind my computer screen, on opposite coasts of the country.
Jami Attenberg
#58. I wish I had known him, but he was just another shadow outside my screen door and I already had a sufficiency of shadows in.
Ray Bradbury
#59. I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'
Maisie Williams
#60. I mean, the paradox is that whereas the screen, it seems to me - the cinema can absorb endless amounts of music, it cannot really with comfort absorb large amounts of words. Not nearly as many words, that is to say, as a stage can.
Bob Mondello
#61. And now I'm at home on a laptop again, typing out stuff for this chapter that you are reading right now, possibly on a screen as well!
Aziz Ansari
#62. Everyone talks about the elusive thing with chemistry. If you have a romance on screen or anything, the first thing you have to do is become friends with the person. It's not necessarily about falling in love.
Seamus Dever
#63. To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.
Peter Sellers
#64. Pamela shook her head as she swiveled the computer screen so Noah could see the grainy black-and-white video of a group of men in SWAT gear approaching a box. Soon there was a bomb-bot poking the thing, and finally a new man in protective gear picked it up. "Harley is being stalked by someone her
Lucy McConnell
#65. Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
David Lynch
#66. I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#67. I'd rather look chubby on screen and like a person in real life.
Jennifer Lawrence
#68. There'll always be movies that are meant for the big screen, and they should be seen that way.
Robert Englund
#69. I really dislike watching myself on screen. I am very insecure about my acting. We are our own biggest critics. I have to sit in another room to my parents when they watch it.
Sophie Turner
#70. It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.
Famke Janssen
#71. I like films where there's a relationship between two women. I always think that's lovely to watch on the screen.
Saoirse Ronan
#72. I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There's not enough women like that on the screen.
Melonie Diaz
#73. 'Why are you yelling at the television when you know they cannot hear you?'
'You wouldn't understand,' said Asher, his gaze locked on the screen. 'It's a human thing.'
Rowan McBride
#74. I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.
Matthew Vaughn
#75. When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.
Maisie Williams
#76. You can see some very great theatre actors who don't work at all well on screen. They're trying too hard at it.
Kevin Whately
#77. you can still create powerful videos that get shared widely. Consider using screen recording software such as EasyVideoSuite or Camtasia to create "How to" videos that walk viewers through a series of useful tips or strategies on a certain topic.
John Nemo
#78. I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more.
Paul Bettany
#79. The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, "This is love." God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, "This is love.
Joshua Harris
#80. I put on some make-up, turn on the 8-track, and I'm pulling the wig down from the shelf - suddenly I'm Miss Punk Rock Star of Stage and Screen and I ain't ever turning back!
John Cameron Mitchell
#81. The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector.
Deepak Chopra
#82. I spent most of my career operating businesses and fixing businesses, not staring at a Bloomberg screen.
Nelson Peltz
#83. In the beginning, I thought mobile search was not much different from Web search. It's just a smaller screen, a slower speed; it's all the bad things. When I thought about mobile Internet, it's all the disadvantages.
Robin Li
#84. The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience.
Luke Evans
#85. I do want to make a special appeal to women movie stars to, I think, have a special responsibility these days to stop smoking, not to do it up on screen because the example that's being set is really an awful example.
Joe Eszterhas
#86. This film Phantom takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.
Stephanie Zacharek
#87. I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.
Denis Leary
#88. As a dancer, it's hard because there's such a perfectionist quality that you really have to let go of while you're acting, because nobody wants to a watch a perfect person on screen.
Kathryn McCormick
#89. I don't ever do those kind of epic, huge, green-screen movies.
Michael Douglas
#90. What's this for?' I said. And this veck replied, interrupting his like song an instant, that it was to keep my gulliver still and make me look at the screen. 'But,' I said, 'I want to look at the screen. I've been brought here to viddy films and viddy films I shall.
Anthony Burgess
#91. Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that.
Atom Egoyan
#92. Growing up, I would have to say I loved 'Peter Pan' because I was fascinated by Captain Hook; I was fascinated by Hans Conried, who was an actor on screen and also a theatrical and television actor.
Jonathan Freeman
#93. An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director's first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but the smallest thing that's not true reads on the screen. So if a director sees that an actor is not believable, he needs to help him become believable.
Tobin Bell
#94. I have this peculiar ability to be able to anticipate mouth movements on screen and fill them with words or sound.
Frank Welker
#95. We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.
Adrienne Rich
#96. We can rarely see things from the point of view of another person because we look at the facts through the screen of an impression or an interest which distorts our view; and then there are accusations, quarrels and misunderstandin g.
Barry Long
#97. The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
Elia Kazan
#98. Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.
Tom Petty
#99. Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.
Clark Gable
#100. We both know that killing someone doesn't make you admirable. I'm not about to forget this. I just hope you have enough soul left that what you've done still bothers you." The recording ended, and Bull smiled at the blank screen wearily. "Every time," he told the hand terminal. "And next time too.
James S.A. Corey
